Yeah and I don't dispute that but it is still a catchy and radio friendly pop song.

I am a huge fan of progressive music and all it's concepts and wierd time signatures but success comes from good melodies not the main concept.

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Papa, you're pretty young, aren't you?    The ide behind the music of Pink Floyd is that you experience it, not listen to it.  There is nothing wrong with putting out a three minute song that is ends, and you move on.  But Floyd back in the day, never look at just one song.  Floyd (before Waters left) always looked at the album as an entity, not just a collection of songs.  After Roger Waters left, they seem to have lost that focus, even to the point of releasing a greatest hits album (Relics notwithstanding).  .  

So if you're looking at Pink Floyd with the same eyes you look at AC/DC or Rush or The Beatles with, you are only getting half the picture.  Looking at 'Comfortably Numb' or 'Welcome to the Machine' or 'Time' as a single song you only get a glimmer of the spectacle that they could be.

Kevin I may be young but am no novice to progressive music or "getting" an album as a whole. I know that in order to know Floyd you have to experience it.

Prog is still alive and well recently with even more complex albums than Floyd in the having to experience thing. Albums like Frances the Mute, Scenes From a Memory, Amplifier, Bridge Across Forever....etc. These albums are only cohesive as a whole even more so than Floyd.

I agree with you on the whole thing your getting at, I am just saying that in order for them to get that exposure they needed that radio friendly sound along with the meaning in order to gain the huge levels of exposure they had. Other bands with other such kinds albums never gained the same exposure (bands like Yes, Kansas and Marillion.) I'm just saying they have to be enormously talented to achieve this sound whilst maintaining the meaning.

Fair comment on AC/DC lol it isn't exactly intellectual stuff but Rush was just as immersive as Pink Floyd back in the 70's. A Farewell To Kings and Hemispheres were albums that were extremely deep and had meanings and concepts.

Don't write me off because I'm young heh, I'm on the same page as you with this

P.S. Woody I got the Wall on DVD and it is a truely awesome film, you gotta love Gerald Scarfe's cartoons 8)

I have seen both as well.

Floyd was unfortunately sans Waters and was only 8 so coudn't really appreciate it.

Rush however I saw last September and that was a three and a half hour wonder to behold.

It was hands down the best concert I have seen yet although I would think that Floyd back in 1980 would have given them a run for their money, luckily Rush have only gotten better and better as they get older.

If you get the chance Scania catch Rush on their next tour, I guarantee you won't be dissapointed (deaf though lol they were much louder than any other band I've seen lol they made Metallica's amps seem like hairdryers 8) )

Thats where I was too lol 8)

Well said, all! 

From "The British Invasion" by Nicolas Shaffner, 1983:

"Barrett found himself fronting a group, which he re-christened the Pink Floyd Sound, after a pair of Georgia blues musicians named Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.  (The "Sound" soon fell by the wayside, though the band continued to be known as "the" Pink Floyd until the 1970's.)"

More like a Gilmour solo effort but still a nice CD.

I much prefer the big 4 albums like Animals, WYWH, Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall.